# The Simpsons: Tapped Out **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231 "2012-12-06T21:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2164 "2013-12-23T22:27:58Z")
I’ve got Clause Co., Mr. Plow and the Ice God. I still need the shelter and the snow monster. Strangely, I also still need about half of the Christmas lights. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2165 "2013-12-23T22:29:08Z")
Down to Yeti and Ice God. I realize the odds are low (1.7% and 2.3% respectively) but still I’m going to keep trying. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2166 "2013-12-24T01:57:42Z")
I’ve got the Shelter and snow Santa’s Little Helper left, I think. I’d prefer SLH because I’m not about to spend donuts on the real deal and all I have is the balloon one. I expect I’ll probably get both eventually. I wanted the yeti really bad, so I’m happy enough. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2167 "2013-12-24T02:19:21Z")
[tangent]Just saw an ad on San Francisco Channel 5 - starting January 6, they’re showing seasons 1-20 sequentially, at 6 PM and 10:30 PM. Thank god, reruns are not as common as they were, and they tend to be the newer, suckier ones.[/tangent] ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2168 "2013-12-24T03:48:17Z")
I’m doing the “hunting” for the Simpsons mission now and planning to milk it out for max spin tokens until January 7th or so. It should up me to 11-14 spins per day. I have to get that Claus Co. at some point! Or someone dies. It’s that simple. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2169 "2013-12-24T06:08:27Z")
In my Mystery Box, I found a Mystery Box. Inside that Mystery Box, I found a Tree. Alrighty, then. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2170 "2013-12-24T06:18:14Z")
> [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > In my Mystery Box, I found a Mystery Box. > > Inside that Mystery Box, I found a Tree. > > Alrighty, then. I’d guess that 75 percent or more of my Mystery Boxes have contained other Mystery Boxes. Sometimes more than one level deep. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2171 "2013-12-24T14:28:22Z")
I am the king of snow and ice objects. I just picked up another SLH today. Yesterday, I got another Bart and a snowball. I believe I have 14 snowmen and ice sculptures, I also have 9 out of 10 christmas lights on buildings. However, no snow monster, and no Clause Co. I really want the building, because I like it. The snow monster would be nice, but I want that building! Too bad we can’t make trades. Strange thing happened to me this morning. I hit a couple of packages, and a few gift cards over buildings and the program locked up and started blasting out the little “bling” sound over and over and on top of itself, creating a very loud, unpleasant sound that made it sound like I was racking up dollars or gift cards at an ungodly rate. But no, just the annoying sound. Killed it and restarted with no trouble. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2172 "2013-12-24T14:37:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I have been spinning about 6-7 times a day and still don’t have Claus Co. or the Yeti. > > It’s annoying. Just out of curiosity, how are you getting 6-7 spins a day? Are you still finding coins in presents and gift bags? I have’t received one extra coin since i hit the 30000 gift card threshold. Interesting, I am missing the same two items you are. > [@Labtrash](#): > > From spins I now have : > > My last six spins have netted…wait for it… $6000 > Urge to kill…_ **rising** _… > > Before I got the Snow God the pointer actually was IN the God wedge, but it gave me the $1000 from the next wedge. TWICE. > > I recall someone upthread mentioning that - is it a common occurrence? I had this happen once, and of course it gave me the prize I didn’t want. I think these are glitches in the game overloading the server. I now have a few places on the wheel with money and have hit them a few times. And I am amused at how annoyed i get… $1000 seems like such a slap in the face after spending the time collecting those gift cards. Especially when all i want is a building or a yeti. :mad: give me my clause co and the yeti!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2173 "2013-12-24T14:53:01Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Just out of curiosity, how are you getting 6-7 spins a day? Are you still finding coins in presents and gift bags? I have’t received one extra coin since i hit the 30000 gift card threshold. I have also received ZERO extra coins from any gift. I am at around 64,000 gift cards, too. You get one token for every 1,000 gift cards past 30,000. I get that many in these ways: 1. Visiting all my neighbors and getting 30 from each. 3,000(3 tokens right there). 2. Getting one per day from the Egg Nog Bar. 3. I have over 70 characters and they are endlessly “hunting the Simpsons” this draws in approx 1900 gift cards twice a day, which ends up being either 3 or 4 more. That’s 7 coins a day, plus maybe some more because I get gifts dropped in my town and get cards from those. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2174 "2013-12-24T15:09:59Z")
Wow. I forgot about the people marching around. I don’t have half of the character amount you have, and I didn’t even think about them in terms of gift cards. But that makes sense. If you don’t get every prize by the 7th of January, something is wrong! I have a general question… Is there a way to tell who has visited your town and who hasn’t? Because I am now up to 100 friends, and I know that they all don’t visit. I’d like to cull my list and replace those that don’t stop by, but I can’t figure out how to tell I’ve been visited unless I actually see the name when they leave me a gift or touch a house and keep a physical record of it. Something i just don’t want to spend the time on. But certain people have visited me every day, and others I don’t recall ever seeing. I go to each friend’s Springfield everyday, and some names I don’t recognize at all (other than from making them a friend in the first place.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2175 "2013-12-24T17:26:46Z")
No, you can not tell. Really, them visiting you is not that important. You visiting them is a way bigger deal. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2176 "2013-12-24T18:37:20Z")
I get some notifications ( “so-and-so has visited your Springfield” ), but I don’t think I get them for every single visit. I totally agree with \*\*Mahaloth \*\*- just try to visit every town every day - it’s the thought that counts :D, and the payout from visiting other towns is way bigger than the one you get _from_ visits - even the non-active players can net you gift cards, and if you don’t see a metal tree you can’t drop a gift box anyways. Trying to figure out who is visiting and who isn’t would get maddening. In my friends list I think it states the last time each friend logged in - maybe cull those who haven’t logged in for a few weeks, as those are the ones not playing (I got rid of a few friends - even Dopers - from the “big list” in this thread that way during Halloween) ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2177 "2013-12-24T19:44:20Z")
The donut sale has begun. Up to 30% more donuts if you buy some. 2400 (+720 bonus) for $99.99 ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2178 "2013-12-24T21:34:59Z")
> [@Labtrash](#): > > In my friends list I think it states the last time each friend logged in - maybe cull those who haven’t logged in for a few weeks, as those are the ones not playing (I got rid of a few friends - even Dopers - from the “big list” in this thread that way during Halloween) If it tells you when the last time each friend has logged in, that is a good way to weed out the folks not playing. I thought that when someone visited my town and chose something, it kicked those dollars/gift cards/whatever to me as well as the visitor… But now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve been receiving any gift cards or money from visitors. Some folks hit my boardwalk tile, and some folks hit my crop on Cletus’ farm, (and a few people have hit both… Thank you for that!) but I doubt I am seeing extra cash or gift cards for someone visiting each house. So aside from gift bags (which go away after Christmas anyway) what DO you get from a visitor? There must be some benefit, right? I guess if there isn’t much to gain from a visit, just having them maintain a town that I can get to is really the best thing I can hope for, right? ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2179 "2013-12-24T22:07:04Z")
A visitor hitting a house does the same thing as you hitting a house. So if a visitor hits a blue house, then 4 hours later you log on and click the handshake, the blue house will only take 4 more hours to have another $ sign again. I’m not exactly sure how it works if they click a brown house and you don’t log on for the 5 minutes it would take to refresh. Also, friends are the only way to get graffiti on your buildings, and cleaning graffiti gives you money and righteousness points ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2180 "2013-12-24T23:56:25Z")
I just got ClausCo off the spin wheel!!! Yes!!! [And there was much rejoicing.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjjZGyYcH9E) ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2181 "2013-12-25T01:49:46Z")
Now that I’m almost done with the wheel, I’m realizing it’s kind of set up badly for some people. I love the wheel as a concept, but I think in execution it could have been a little better. Like having gift bags to distribute as a slice. Even just a single donut with very low chances. I don’t have much need for such little cash, so once I collect my last prize, there’s not a lot of incentive to keep high-level players like me invested in it. I don’t want to sound like “EA sucks” because I like this, but I think sometimes there are flaws. The Golden Scratcher option is now gone. It might be because there is a Gil sale. Rumor has it that gift bags will be worth twice as much Christmas and the day after. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2182 "2013-12-25T02:17:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I just got ClausCo off the spin wheel!!! Yes!!! > > [And there was much rejoicing.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjjZGyYcH9E) Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 😃 That said, I just got Plow King myself. ClausCo and Yeti to go! ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/2183 "2013-12-25T03:06:50Z")
Downloaded this on December 13. Now, bear in mind, I am unemployed, and have lots of time to farm Brown Houses - 106 of them every 5 minutes adds up. I have all 10 Personal Gift Card prizes, and am almost at 32000. I think that I have outleveled my quests - I’m still building the control room and Gulp N Blow, but the task bar wants me to build the church and Moe’s - I have the required level, but they won’t let me build them. This game is very much to my addictive personality. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=110)